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‘What heart without evaporating in sighs can ponder the burden of deepest sorrows and lamentations of parents, children, husbands, wives, kinsmen, friends.’

verb

[no object]

Feel or display deep distress.

‘a woman had cried all night, sorrowing over the death of her husband’

‘I sorrow for you, I have seen your devotion to her, but I speak the truth.’

‘Does warfare cause us to sorrow over sin and pray for Christ's return?’

‘And I find myself wondering if the director, who recently turned 50, might not be at some sort of creative impasse, sorrowing for the lost simplicities of a rural way of life, and the passions and certainties of youth.’

‘Nowhere is this more visible than in the pasos or processional statues of bleeding Christs and sorrowing Virgins by Martínez Montañés, Juan de Mesa, the Moras, and Pedro Roldán.’

‘I sorrow for the buildings and the people who have gone.’

‘Mostly they pull it off: Hanks with his fleshy, sorrowing potato-face, and Newman, his ageless blue eyes glaring out with a predatory serenity, conjuring something Shakespearean and damned.’

‘I left the lawn and moved in the white light and silence along the road, aimless and sorrowing.’

‘But those who can discern the Lord's body in the Supper and who comes sorrowing for sin and seeking grace are welcome at the feast.’

‘Paul explains that his readers must not sorrow for their loved ones as do ‘the rest’ who have no hope.’

‘After spending some time about the pool where it was believed Demeter had once sat sorrowing for her daughter, those seeking full initiation then entered the inner courtyard.’

‘The enslaved Baptist regretted and sorrowed over the inability in many instances to maintain family cohesion because of the auction block (as did the Muslim).’

‘No, it is not by sorrowing, nor by compulsion that truth can prosper, it is by patient work alone that the work can be done: -’

‘‘The village sorrowed when you left,’ she finally said in Elven with the familiar, heavy accent.’

‘I sorrow without relief for the sight that you deny, and die, for I long to die.’

‘Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.’

‘Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing onward through life we go.’

‘How can we best serve the memory of the dead, have empathy for the frightened and sorrowing and express our own insecurities?’

‘Maybe it won't, if in their grief Americans make common cause with other sorrowing humans.’